Wire buckle and loop.



PATENTED APR. 17, 1906.

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Hmnumm 8 UNITED sTATEs PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN C. MOORE, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO NORTH & JUDD MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, A CORPORATION OF CONNECTICUT.

WIRE BUCKLE AND LOOP- Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented April 17, 1906.

To (bl/Z whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JOHN C. MOORE, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city, county, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Wire Buckles and Loops, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in wire buckles and loops, the object of the invention being to provide a simple, inexpensive, and effective construction in which the buckle and tuckloops are formed from wrought metal or wire integrally and in which the tongue is mounted in such a manner that the parts may be economically produced and will be possessed of the greatest possible strength.

The strap-barthat is, the bar which divides the buckle-loop from the tuck-loop-is formed of two thicknesses of metal, affording a positive bearing of such proportions that will not tend to cut the strap. Furthermore,

being continuous from end to end there is litltole or no danger of the spreading of the side ars.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of a buckle of my invention attached to a strap. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the buckle detached. Fig. 3 is a side elevation of the buckle shown in Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a longitudinal section. of the strap and buckle shown in Fig. 1, said section being taken in the plane of the tongue, but said tongue being shown in elevation.

The buckle comprises a tuck-loop as well as a tongue-loop. Both loops are made 0 one continuous piece of wire, and the tongue is supported upon an intermediate portion of the wire.

1 represents the buckle or tongue-loop; 2, the tuck-loop 3, the tongue. Spacing these loops 1 and 2 apart is what I term the tongue-bar. This tongue-bar includes the two ends 4 and 5 of the wire as well as the bar for the tongue. One end of the wire-for example, the end 5-bears against a portion of the tongue 3 and prevents its lateral displacement. An offset bend 6, formed in an intermediate part of the wire adjacent to the tongue-bar, prevents the lateral displacement of the tongue in an opposite direction.

This offset portion also furnishes a pocket or recess to receive the end 4 of the wire. By this arrangement the tongue-bar or intermediate bar is formed of a double thickness of wire, and both ends are, when the strap is in place, neatly and completely housed in the strap-loop 7. The free end 8 of the strap is adapted to be passed through the loop and around the bar 1. When the strap is drawn up to the desired position, the tongue is passed through one of the usual perforations, and the free end of the strap is passed under neath the bar of the tuck-loop 2 after the usual manner.

From the foregoing it will be seen that the strain pulling against the bar 1 of the straploop is transmitted through the side bars 9 9 to the double tongue-bar and thence to the strap-loop 7. There is no part of the buckle that is, therefore, not rigidly reinforced and well capable of withstanding strains to which the buckle is subjected. By this particular arrangement the tongue is conveniently and effectively supported to itself resist the pulling strain of the strap connected to it and in such a manner that its lateral displacement is prevented and its correct position and alinement maintained.

What I claim is- 1. As an article of manufacture, a buckle comprising two loop portions formed from a single piece of wire and including an intermediate strap and tongue-bar and a tongue pivoted thereon, the ends of said wire terminating in said bar and projecting from opposite sides of the buckle and toward said tongue.

2. As an article of manufacture, a buckle comprising two loop portions formed from a single piece of wire and including an intermediate strap and tongue-bar and a tongue pivoted thereon, the ends of said wire terminating in said bar and projecting from opposite sides of the buckle and toward said tongue, the other part of said bar comprising a continuous piece of wire extending from one side of the buckle to the other.

JOHN C. MOORE. 

